Wireless SSH2 Devices? 21
AugstWest asks: "I was at a concert in Manhattan last night when I panicked and thought my beeper had gone off, which would usually mean that one of my company's servers had failed, leaving clients without vital services. I know I'm not alone in being the sole admin since a lot of companies don't have the resources to have redundant dedicated admins, so if the servers go down, I'm the only one who knows how to get them back up. My nearest terminal was in Connecticut. I would have had to leave the show (leave a King Crimson show?) and drive back to Connecticut (at least an hour) to be able to get in to the server and scope the situation. Fortunately I had hallucinated the beep, but it hit me that there's got to be a wireless device out there that can handle SSH2. I've got a client for the Palm that does SSH1, but it's not enough. What are people using to administer their servers from a wireless device? Since it's just a character shell it shouldn't be too difficult to do, and it would be so nice to be able to just duck out to the hallway, log in to the server, check the status, start things up again, then head back in to the show."
Mystery slashdot posts (Score:1)
This is just weird
btw; I don't have any mobile devices, but I reckon it would probably be nive to have the ability to remote login on your server with your Yopy
amateur radio wireless (Score:1)
Ask Slashdot (Score:2)
Re:Ask Slashdot (Score:2)
Never really got an answer, either, other than "keep with what you've got."
Mindterm (Score:3)
It sounds like... (Score:2)
Re:It sounds like... (Score:2)
I'm also not really looking for X11 forwarding to a wireless device...
Re:Ehhhh (Score:1)
Re:Secured convenience (Score:2)
I've also found OmniSky's wireless modems for the Palms, Jornadas and Handsprings. [omnisky.com] They're currently $99 to purchase and $39.95/month for unlimited access. I've got my boss talked into it, considering that he was going to pay pretty much that price for a cell phone, which would prove worthless if I was out "in the field" and away from a machine with net access.
A shell account anywhere... IRC, Lynx, e-mail and web access... Works for me.
Re:Ask Slashdot (Score:1)
Brute force solution (Score:4)
Re:Ask Slashdot (Score:2)
On the front page you only see those stories which the Editors approve for the front page. For all other accepted stories, you only see them in the Slashbox for that topic -- or in "Older Stuff" which shows all accepted articles.
Re:Ask Slashdot (Score:1)
Re:Brute force solution (Score:2)
It may be funny, but it works.
I keep an old beatup laptop with me all the time cos it has Linux+SSH on it. I can hookup from almost anywhere I can find a phone or network port. I don't have a cellphone because I don't want to spend the $$$ on it out of my pocket. If a place I'm working wants me to have that level of connectivity they can pay for it.
Re:Ask Slashdot (Score:1)
Re:amateur radio wireless (Score:2)
If you want remote access you'll have to use something more reliable than packet radio.
OpenSSH - iPAQ - Cell Link (Score:2)
If you don't want a normal modem link, you can get digital data service on a GSM phone. With a vibrating phone/battery, you can get paged by the phone. Then to call back you connect the iPAQ to the phone (wire or IR).
Ricochet also (Score:2)
Re:amateur radio wireless (Score:1)
(the idea is to prevent people from using amateur radio as a tool of spying on the US or something)
which kinda throws out security unless you can figure a way to say your encryption isn't
Re:Ehhhh (Score:2)
Secured convenience (Score:1)